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A Review Of Colin Palmers Slav
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Colin A. Palmer. Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.
In the introduction to Slaves of the White God, Colin A. Palmer noted that his research on blacks in colonial Mexico was inspired by the protests of the Black Consciousness movement ....
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....indicative of a massive volume of slaves, since large-scale plantation labor was still in development. In actuality the estimated population of slaves in Mexico during the colonial period was approximately 100,000. The significance, of course, was not in the quantity but in the eventual evolution of slavery in the New World.
Historiographically, the study of blacks in Mexico is plagued with a glaring lack of contemporaneous documentation. One of the deficiencies of Palmer's work is that the p.... |
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